Native American Heritage Month

A group of Native American women dressed as warriors in blue.

In November, celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Smithsonian events, resources, exhibitions, and podcast episodes.

Events

Resources

Isabella Aiukli Cornell wears her prom dress and beaded jewelry.

Smithsonian American Women's History Museum

Twelve Women to Know for Native American Heritage Month

Explore nine items from our collections about 12 women to know.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Pandemic Face Masks by Native Women Artists

Adding functional and artistic masks to SAAM’s collection during Covid-19 projects artists’ messages of strength, resilience, and hope.

Delvin Garcia Standing in Remains of the Santa Rosa de Lima Church

National Museum of the American Indian

Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field

Featuring never-before-seen photography, two essays provide thought-provoking insights into twenty-first century Native life.

Smithsonian Digitization

3D Tech Used to Restore a Sacred Object for Tlingit Indians

The clan held a ceremony in Juneau to put spirit into the newly restored replica so that it could be used in ceremonies.

indigenous men speak with vintage recorder

Smithsonian Collection Spotlight

Indigenous Voices

The Smithsonian works with Native American communities to revive and sustain Indigenous languages.

Students sit at desks holding tablet computers.

National Museum of the American Indian

Native Knowledge 360°

Resources from NMAI to support teaching and learning about Native Americans.

Painting of code talker Charles Chibitty Comanche

National Museum of the American Indian

Why We Serve

This online exhibition honors the generations of Native Americans who have served in the U.S. armed forces since the American Revolution.

Map of U.S. oil, collage and mixed media on canvas.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Native and Indigenous Art

Explore artworks that reflect the profound and longstanding contributions of Native and Indigenous artists in the U.S.

Sidedoor Podcast Episodes

Sidedoor Podcast

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Events

Resources

Twelve Women to Know for Native American Heritage Month

Pandemic Face Masks by Native Women Artists

Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field

3D Tech Used to Restore a Sacred Object for Tlingit Indians

Indigenous Voices

Native Knowledge 360°

Why We Serve

Native and Indigenous Art

Sidedoor Podcast Episodes

Reservation Math: Navigating Love in Native America

Raven and the Box of Daylight

Cherokee Story Slam

Featured Exhibitions

Sublime Light: Tapestry Art of DY Begay

Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains

Why We Serve: Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

Native New York

National Native American Veterans Memorial

Ancestral Connections

Americans

Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations

As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, Games

Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian

Return to a Native Place: Algonquian Peoples of Chesapeake

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